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[[File:Seurat Jatte.jpg|right|220px|A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte.]]
[[File:Seurat Jatte.jpg|right|220px|A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte.]]
'''Neo-Impressionism''' is a [[painting]] movement developed by [[George-Pierre Seurat]] and [[Paul Signac]] in the late 1880s. Seurat's painting: ''A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte'', marked the beginning of this movement; this painting is currently at "The Art Institute of Chicago". ''Neo-Impressionists painters applied scientific optical principles of light and colour to create strictly formalized compositions... The group founded a Société des Artistes Indépendants in 1884. '' [http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/408661/Neo-Impressionism]
'''Neo-Impressionism''' is a [[painting]] movement developed by [[George-Pierre Seurat]] and [[Paul Signac]] in the late 1880s. Seurat's painting: ''A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte'', marked the beginning of this movement; this painting is currently at "The Art Institute of Chicago". ''Neo-Impressionists painters applied scientific optical principles of light and colour to create strictly formalized compositions.'' [http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/408661/Neo-Impressionism] This technique, aimed to use optical mixture of colours, was based on the colour theories of Eugene Chevreul whose ''De la loi du contraste simultanée des couleurs'' (On the law of the simultaneous contrast of colours) was published in Paris in 1839. [http://www.tate.org.uk/collections/glossary/definition.jsp?entryId=190]
At the genesis of the movement:
At the genesis of the movement:
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Other important painters of this movement were: Charles Angrand, Henri Edmond Cross, [[Maximilien Luce]] and Albert Dubois Pillet. This movement influenced the works of [[Paul Gauguin]], [[Vincent van Gogh]], [[Henri Toulouse-Lautrec]], and [[Henri Matisse]].
Other important painters of this movement were: Charles Angrand, Henri Edmond Cross, [[Maximilien Luce]] and Albert Dubois Pillet. The group founded a Société des Artistes Indépendants in 1884. This movement influenced the works of [[Paul Gauguin]], [[Vincent van Gogh]], [[Henri Toulouse-Lautrec]], and [[Henri Matisse]].
== See also ==
== See also ==